Sentences with phrase «small bookstores came»

Nor should they forget that the real problems for small bookstores came with the influx of the big box bookstores like B&N.

Not exact matches

My knowledge of what's percolating at small shops around the country is still limited, but I've come to see that receiving promotion through a bookstore's mailing list isn't chump change.

In many communities, in the ashes of Borders and closed B&N's — the small, local bookstore is coming back.

My novel The Rescuer's Path came out this January, with glowing cover comments from Ursula Le Guin («exciting, physically vivid, and romantic»), Cheryl Strayed («held me from the first page to the end»), and many other noted authors whose opinions, one would think, would count with the media; yet, except a notice in Small Press Review («lyrical and poetic, the characters vividly drawn, the story captivating») and elsewhere, and mostly 5 - star Amazon reviews, media critics and bookstores will not so much as open the book.

Lauren Charles [00:09:12] Yes, a sell sheet, and in fact if you can walk in with something that has your title, the cover of your book, make sure that cover looks nice, make sure that it pops, and then, and I would highly recommend to anyone who's coming in, indie press, small press, anything like that, anyone who's coming into any level bookstore, you should be able to say with absolute certainty, this is how you can order my book, this is the discount I know you can get it at, and I know it's returnable, and I can even help you.

Essentially, the complaint seems to come down to the fact that the American Booksellers Association has a partnership with Kobo to let indie bookstores not only sell the devices in their shops, but also to sell ebooks to customers while making a small affiliate - style profit on it.

However, when it comes to a book becoming an international success, a small book signing at a local independent bookstore might help gather some local attention but will do very little for selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

«The small independent bookstore is coming back,» I told reporters in Berlin and Bangladesh.

The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society, a small group of bare - chested naturalists, came to look around Richard Prince's invitation - only art gallery - cum - bookstore, Fulton Ryder.

And while some of its peers in the big - box space, such as Office Depot, can experiment with smaller stores because their customers come in looking for specific products that can be ordered through the chains» websites, a bookstore is too much about the experience of exploring new products in person for that to be a successful strategy for Barnes & Noble, notes Montgomery.